Gigs4Generations Official Documentation

 Rehearsal Diaries: Beggars Folk Music Club Rehearsal Diary: 29/04/26 The intention of this gig was to be at a retirement home, but a different idea was brought to me: a local folk music club with another friend who had been asked to play there, to which I was welcomed to join in for a set there. The plan is to perform this very short set on 14th May. With the set being much shorter than the other sets I will be playing, these diaries will end up being shorter and less. So today me and my friend Mia filtered through a few acoustic, folk songs that she already knew and had in her pocket to make rehearsal time much more sweet for both of our busy schedules, we played through a select few songs and created a small, 5 song set which will give us a decent 15 minute set to perform at this club. Together we put together this list of songs which sounded at the best out of what we played, though more may be added when the club reach back to me about how long the set can be. With the whole f...

 The Alexandra Hotel Gig: 25/04/26 Review and Analysis A key reason on why we played this gig was to focus on audience at a pub and how they react to music being presented in front of them, where the majority are adults in their 30s-50s, though there were some members of the audience a lot younger which I will be taking into account when discussing audience reaction as they reacted differently to the adults in the crowd, there was also a motive of spreading the band's wings and testing out songs with this being our first proper gig. This in general is just effective for creating future sets and finding what works and doesn't work. This gig is a third of my project and there are still 2 more to get through, though everything to come from this gig has given me several answers already. Given that the main focus of this gig was audience reaction, interaction and engagement, those were what I tried to observe throughout our 2 sets, and listening in to the other artists playing on th...

Rehearsal Diaries: Polar Bear Rehearsal Diary: 22/04/26 This gig is gonna be a little bit more interesting than the previous two in terms of rehearsals and documentation as I am in two bands for this particular gig so genre and research wise, I will use My Suede Shoes as the main priority focus regarding research as they match the genre that you may see at a venue like the Polar Bear than Slate, though I will still use this post to document Slate's progress.  Today, I spent upskilling hour in C7 with My Suede Shoes who are covering midwest emo for this gig and spent time going through Romance Is Boring by Los Campensinos. There wasn't much to go through with this rehearsal as we were missing Sam who is our lead guitarist, and it was a last minute addition so it was our first time properly looking at the song. However, despite slight struggles structure and memory-wise, it already sounds great and with a few more rehearsals, this song will already sound powerful with a month lef...

Gigs4Generations What is 'Gigs4Generations'? Gigs4Generations is my Final Major Project. It will be a tour following my band: Slate and will also be following the release of their EP: Crashing Moon. The intention of this tour is to play in front of  an average crowd of 3 different generations: teenagers, adults and the elderly. It is expected to find an average teenage crowd playing at a college or a college-run gig, an average of an adult crowd would be found in a pub and an elderly crowd would be found in a retirement home. My goal from this project is to learn how to properly play in a band, learn how to organize a gig and learn how to create a set appropriate for the average crowd or venue I am playing in (like how a metal set would not work well in a retirement home.). How will I go about this project? I will create 3 different set lists and play a minimum of 3 different venues, then I will perform them with Slate. The EP slate are writing will have a song for us to play a...